White Cloud teen arrested for assaulting officer

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) - A White Cloud man is in the Mecosta County jail on charges of assaulting a police officer. Mecosta County Deputies were called to the University Park Suites apartments around 1:00 a.m. Saturday, for loud parties.

Investigators say deputies witnessed the 19-year-old flipping a couch onto a car, causing more than one thousand dollars in damage. After deputies stopped him the man resisted arrest and ran away.

They say he later assaulted an officer. Officers used a taser to try and subdue the man, but it had no effect. He was later found hiding under a car, after his arrest, he was checked out at a Big Rapids Hospital, before being taken to jail.

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